Southwind Rail Trail Dedication

There will be an official opening of the new 6.5-mile Southwind Rail Trail (southern extension of Prairie Spirit, from Iola to Humboldt) on Saturday, June 8th, 2:00 p.m. at the north of the Riverside Park at W. Bruner Street (west of State St.) in Iola. June 8th is National Outdoors Day. Billie Hall and her staff from the Sunflower Foundation will be there. With completion of the Southwind Rail Trail, there is now a 59-mile continuous rail-trail from Ottawa to Humboldt.

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Bike Prairie Spirit

The Prairie Spirit Trail is a Kansas State Park built on a former railroad right-of-way. It connects Iola in the south to Ottawa in the north, over a distance of about 52 miles. This web site is a resource for bike riders of Kansas's Prairie Spirit Trail. The site provide cyclists with up-to-date information needed for traveling this popular eastern Kansas Rail Trail.